An unstable, shifting world of information overwhelm, constantly evolving technologies, rapidly-declining trust and fragmenting social cohesion, where everybody is feeling the lack of connection and authenticity, is not a place of human thriving.
These conditions push people to withdraw emotionally and physically, avoiding risk and adventure in search of stability and safety.
Inevitably this drags businesses performance down. People withhold parts of themselves. Confidence and initiative drop. Motivation, innovation and leadership all take a hit. People lose direction, teams become ineffective, targets are missed.
But you have a unique opportunity to turn this around; to bring your best talent back online, super-charge team performance and make a meaningful, wider community impact with Culturate.
To help businesses become epicentres of connection and belonging, by building cultures of kinship, healing and reciprocity.
Culturate is a collective of skilled practitioners who combine breakthrough organizational culture strategy, behavioural science and leadership mentoring with deep somatic and practical healing.
We believe organisations have a unique opportunity to do more than just support employees. You have the chance to inspire social, human leadership with benefits that extend far beyond the normal working day. This will have direct impacts on your company performance, employer brand and reputation.
Culturate’s team has extensive experience in guiding organisations to find unity via a powerful internal purpose, seeding values-driven cultures, transforming leadership and supporting employees at all levels in growing self-awareness and kinship.
Culturate programmes and training follow these pillars of practice:
Our clients in New Zealand and Australia are typically:
We achieve our impact through tailored on-site and off-site programmes.
While the core nature of each programme remains consistent,weare constantly evolving to reflect modern practice as well as tailoringdelivery to reflect specific client needs or context.
Group experiences for leaders and managers to boost empathy-based leadership, team cohesion and resilience. Particularly valuable in times of disruption or when there is a need to regroup and reset.
Discover and embed a motivating and meaningful internal purpose that nourishes team culture, builds bonds and drives your external brand vision.
Rediscovering the gifts and responsibilities of conscious mentoring and Eldership in the workplace. A life and business-changing reset for men and women aged 50 and over.
Interactive programme to cultivate life-changing self-understanding, emotional transparency and reciprocity among individuals who identify as male. With the option to integrate a life-changing Rites of Passage experience.
One-on-one and small group coaching that explores leadership through the perspectives of empathetic self-awareness and an elder wisdom lens encompassing broadness of vision, deeper responsibility and greater compassion. This has a profound, lasting effect on how leadership is delivered and experienced.
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Jerry’s career reflects a unique blend of military discipline, cultural and psychological understanding plus both strategic and creative leadership.
As a former Royal Marines officer, international judo competitor and mixed martial arts coach, Jerry has cultivated a deep understanding of trust, teamwork and kinship.
Then followed a 30-year career in advertising as a strategic and creative leader, as well as leading Tickled Pink - a successful organizational culture transformation consultancy.
Beyond this, Jerry has mentored men through various rites of passage programmes, blending personal growth with emotional healing. He has also spent time among a First Nation people in the United States, and works closely with iwi in Aotearoa.
He has an academic background in sociology, behavioural science and Jungian studies that further enrich his focus on building sustainable cultures of growth and kinship.
Claire O’Neil is an embodied practitioner with over 10-years experience studying, integrating and leading mindful movement processes for daily creativity, self-knowledge and wellbeing.
Progressing from an international career in dance as an artistic director, performer, mentor, and lecturer, Claire grounds her practice in experiential anatomy, breathwork, and body training systems such as yoga, contact improvisation, functional and primal movement patterns, and, more recently, Somatic Movement Education.
Her eco-somatic research spans the fields of social, environmental, arts, and movement philosophies, exploring what it means to be vibrant beings in sustainable local ecologies. Through placemaking, self-identifying and kinship methods, Claire works on ways to improve creative thinking, communication, inter-relationship and problem-solving.
Jemarl’s story is a beacon of purpose and realized possibility. After an exacting career as a professional firefighter, he felt a deep calling to reorient his life to a kaupapa of mentoring individuals through Te Ao Māori, a deep connection to the natural world and holistic wellbeing.
Operating from Piha on Auckland’s rugged west coast, Jemarl excels in creating then leading people of all ages through activity-based experiences that inspire transformation.
Whether this wānanga involves surfing, bushwalking or another outdoor experience, Jemarl’s leadership and work bridges modern science and ancestral knowledge. His unique approach touches the mind (hinengaro), body (tinana) and spirit (wairua). The effect is to make people feel uplifted, empowered, seen, safe and capable of change.
Jemarl is also co-facilitator of Calm Under Pressure, a mind-body training system created in partnership with elite performance coach Dave Wood.
If you feel we might be able to make a difference to your operation, leadership or how your team behave and contribute, let’s kōrero.
We’ll listen first, then respond with how some meaningful support might look and the specific outcomes we need to realise.
Any programme will be carefully designed and delivered so it’s tailored to your specific organization.
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